Islanders | Review in 2 Minutes

Jesse Galena reviews the minimalist city builder, Islanders, developed by GrizzlyGames.
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[@PGMP2007]

Good game, fair review, fair retail price. Its a good game to have. You can pick it up years later and still have fun like the first time you played it.

[@moonlitegram]

For the price they ask (5 bucks US, even cheaper when on sale), I consider this pretty much a flawless game. Its well focused on a specific gameplay experience and it achieves it fully without getting bogged down by superfluous mechanics. The ui is simple and intuitive and the game is really easy to pick up, but provides enough strategic depth to make high score runs interesting once you get the basic gameplay down. What the game lacks in scope and complexity is mitigated entirely by its price in my opinion. At a higher price I think these would be valid complaints, but at 5 bucks, the scope and gameplay offered feels entirely worth it. Its a game that almost everyone is going to get at least 5-10 hours out of and will at least feel like they got 5 bucks worth of gameplay. And for a lot of people, itll be a game you revisit from time to time for a relaxing semi-strategic, semi-creative experience.

[@shacuras8201]

I bought it, played it the whole day (~10 hours) and I loved it. But now I have all achievements and don't know what if I will play it again

[@cosmos_crimsonstone]

Is it hard to get all achievements

[@barnstar2077]

This game is £4.30 currently in the UK. It is easily worth that, I recommend people pick it up.

[@Meteaura22]

Not my cup of gaming tea but thank you for the short and sweet review. :)

[@trace5483]

Good game great video

[@Seacastle89]

The Wandering Village -> Pick this game up.

[@kpjlflsknflksnflknsa]

Shame I don't have the temperament for such games.

[@foxbacchin]

Great review - said all I needed to hear in a short amount of time. Congrats!

[@ordinarygamingguy9714]

This is 3D tettris

[@richardwienke7546]

Does this game have a free play mode?

[@solsystem1342]

It does now. It's called sandbox I believe and it just let's you put stuff wherever if you want to focus on making stuff look nice. Trying to go for points leads to the most organic looking cities for me at least but, for people who want to sandbox is there.

[@johngore5127]

I know this is a stupid question but I don't see it mentioned anywhere and since it's a primary activity it should highlighted much better: how you put the buildings down on the island surface? What button do you push to set the buildings down? Why are the devs making the assumption that I'll know this intuitively? Help please. A list of keystrokes would be very useful for the casual, first time players.

[@moonlitegram]

Keybindings are in the settings like most games. But its just a basic left mouse click to place. The games controls are minimal and simple. LMB to pick a building and place it, RMB to deselect a building. Cancel your last placement with z. Rotate with mouse wheel. Wsad to move camera around the map. And thats pretty much it.

[@johngore5127]

@@moonlitegram Nope. Sorry. Doesn't work. Maybe my download was faulty?

[@IanM92]

How many times did he say minimalist?

[@Gameumentary]

Minimal times.

[@st4r444]

Game over state = bad idea Should have just let us live with Consequences

[@solsystem1342]

You can't live with your consequences though. Like half the time you run out of points before your goal is because of space limitations. The way the game is set up provides a decent incentive to build well without being too punishing imo. Since, even when you succeed you just move onto the next island anyways.

[@umadbroimatroll7918]

I'm sorry to say, but tip did it better or today I played with lewis and turps. And I'm sorry i havent even watches the video but no one beats lewis and turps